diff --git a/openstack-proxy/nodeimage.pkr.hcl b/openstack-proxy/nodeimage.pkr.hcl
index 8d700c063ee45bda24978d67df7fa1c53f1d0039..18c195e572b279d743be8d062e50c5550e96fadf 100644
--- a/openstack-proxy/nodeimage.pkr.hcl
+++ b/openstack-proxy/nodeimage.pkr.hcl
@@ -47,7 +47,13 @@ build {
     use_proxy        = false
     user             = var.ssh_username
     groups           = ["proxy"]
-    ansible_env_vars = ["ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT=60", "ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False"]
+    ansible_env_vars = [
+      "ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT=60",
+      "ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False",
+      "ANSIBLE_VERBOSITY=${var.ANSIBLE_VERBOSITY}",
+      "ANSIBLE_DEBUG=${var.ANSIBLE_DEBUG}",
+      "ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=true"
+    ]
     playbook_file    = "./CRI_XCBC/proxy.yaml"
   }
 }
diff --git a/openstack-proxy/variables.pkr.hcl b/openstack-proxy/variables.pkr.hcl
index 8e78a5db75195605b72bdcc0a8fc04964ef2b7ff..9215362da397119c2833a43ee976c0717515a931 100644
--- a/openstack-proxy/variables.pkr.hcl
+++ b/openstack-proxy/variables.pkr.hcl
@@ -94,3 +94,15 @@ variable "volume_size" {
   description = "The default volume size for building iamge"
 }
 
+variable "ANSIBLE_DEBUG" {
+  type        = string
+  default     = "false"
+  description = "to turn on debugging"
+}
+
+variable "ANSIBLE_VERBOSITY" {
+  type        = string
+  default     = "0"
+  description = "to increase verbosity - 0|1|2|3|4"
+}
+